Everybody has that one story. That crazy travel story that no one could possibly believe. Mine was this summer in Salta. It’s hard to explain this trip. Words don’t really seem to suffice. Crazy, stressful, fun. Perfecto. Between roadtripping with an Argentine couple we had never met before, hitchhiking, seeing wild llamas, spending the night in a village in the middle of nowhere, sunset over a salt desert, a crazy all-nighter – we thought we had seen it all. But the madness was yet to begin. Continue reading →

CUSCO is an interesting city. Someone once told me that they thought Peru’s capital city, Lima, felt “unfinished”, but to me Cusco is more so. Lima is big – and while there is obvious segregation between those who have money and those who don’t, the various barrios, districtos, and its enormous scale make it seem almost like it was made that way on purpose. Cusco, on the other hand, is a small city. Not small enough that it took me less than an hour to walk into the city centre every day, but small enough that if you meet someone once you’ll probably run into them again. Continue reading →